Self was annoyed that Greene didn’t merely hold the ball to run out the clock, and that’s fair: a ball-handler on the winning team who’s not being guarded in the final seconds of a blowout is entered in an implicit contract where he agrees not to take advantage it. But emotions run high in an in-state rivalry, and Greene was still thrumming from an important four-point play to close the first half, and the way to handle this is probably in private.

Instead, Self aired Greene out a second time, on his postgame radio interview.

“Brannen Greene, we’ve put up with him doing some stuff in the past, but that was probably the biggest dick move I’ve ever had a player do during a game.

“To dunk the ball like that when the other team — even their players are going, ‘How disrespectful to the game.’ It certainly showed unbelievably poor sportsmanship.”

Self and Brannen have a history. Brannen was suspended five games earlier this season after a locker-room argument over playing time. It goes back longer than that, even: last spring Greene’s father had to deny rumors that his son was planning to transfer.

This season, Greene is averaging 6.9 points and 2.3 rebounds in 14.1 minutes per game. He played only six minutes last night.